Spoiler alert: This post contains plot details from season 2 of13 Reasons Why.

With that one scene, the show was speaking to just how many women have stories of their own.

And that, in some way, they’re the ones who give Jessica the strength to go on.

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It’s a scene that Yorkey later contemplated removing from the finale altogether.

But there was an outcry from our executive producers and our executives, many of whom are women.

“I always think about girls who are like 15 and 16 and watching this,” he says.

13 Reasons Whyseason 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.